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• Students remain undergraduates until they meet all the requirements SOCIOLOGY & for the undergraduate degree and are eligible for all rights and privileges granted undergraduate status, including financial aid. ANTHROPOLOGY • Near the end of the undergraduate program, formal application to the graduate program is required. The application fee will be waived, the Sociology and Anthropology are the broadest of the social sciences. applicant will need to contact the Office of Graduate Studies for a fee Sociology is the scientific study of human relationships. Sociologists seek waiver code. to understand the ways that often unseen social forces shape our lives. • Admission to Fast Track does NOT guarantee admission to the Anthropology is the holistic study of human biology and culture across time graduate program. and place. Anthropologists typically work within one of four sub-disciplines: • The admit term must be after the completion term of the archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and socio- undergraduate degree. cultural anthropology. Contact These disciplines are particularly useful to graduates entering the 21st 383 Arts and Sciences Hall century labor force. Our rapidly changing and increasingly diverse world 402.554.2626 offers both opportunities and monumental challenges. Sociology and Anthropology give students the analytical skills to understand such Website (http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/sociology- challenges and the tools to improve our at all levels – from the and-anthropology/) neighborhood to the world community. Degrees Offered Other • Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (http://catalog.unomaha.edu/ All coursework taken for the Sociology major, minor, and Anthropology undergraduate/college-arts-sciences/sociology-anthropology/sociology- minor must be completed with a grade of "C" or better. ba/) UNO Sociology Club – open to all students interested in discussing all • Sociology, Bachelor of Science (http://catalog.unomaha.edu/ things sociological! undergraduate/college-arts-sciences/sociology-anthropology/sociology- bs/) UNO Student Anthropology Society – bring yourself, your lunch, and your interest in Anthropology! Writing in the Discipline All students are required to take a writing in the discipline course within Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) – the Alpha Chapter of Nebraska of the their major. For the sociology major this is SOC 4900. International Sociological Honor Society for students who meet certain academic requirements. Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of For more information visit our Student Organizations (https:// Science (BS) in Sociology www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/sociology-and- Students are required to complete 33 hours of coursework for the Sociology anthropology/student-opportunities/student-organizations.php) page. BA or BS degree: 21 hours of core required courses and 12 hours of additional sociology or anthropology courses. The department offers five Option for Degree Completion optional concentrations that fulfill the 12 hours of additional coursework: Fast Track Program anthropology, families and inequality, health and society, inequality and , and work and organizations. The Department of Sociology & Anthropology has developed a Fast Track program for highly qualified and motivated students providing the Students in the BA degree program are required to complete foreign opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in language through the intermediate level. an accelerated time frame. With Fast Track, students may count up to 9 graduate hours toward the completion of their undergraduate program as Students in the BS degree program are required to complete 15 hours of well as the graduate degree program. cognate coursework, a field of specialization outside of sociology based on their interests and/or career aspirations. Cognates are designed by the Program Specifics: student in consultation with the undergraduate adviser. • This program is available for undergraduate students pursuing a Online option Sociology BA/BS major who desire to pursue a Sociology MA degree. The Sociology BA/BS is available on campus or entirely online. Earning a • Students must have completed no less than 60 undergraduate hours. concentration is not required, but online majors do have the option to select • Students must have a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 and a GPA of the health and society concentration. 3.3 in SOC and ANTH courses. • Students must complete the Fast Track Approval form, obtain all Minors Offered signatures, and submit to the Office of Graduate Studies prior to first • Sociology Minor (http://catalog.unomaha.edu/undergraduate/college- enrollment in a graduate course. arts-sciences/sociology-anthropology/sociology-minor/) • Students will work with their undergraduate advisor to register for the • Anthropology Minor (http://catalog.unomaha.edu/undergraduate/ graduate courses. college-arts-sciences/sociology-anthropology/anthropology-minor/) • ANTH 1050, SOC 1010, SOC 2120, SOC 2130, SOC 2134 should be completed before enrolling in the first graduate course. Both the sociology and anthropology minors are available on campus or • SOC 3510 and SOC 3514 should be taken before or concurrently entirely online. with enrollment in the first graduate course. Sociology is the scientific study of social life that reveals the ways that often • A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 is required for graduate coursework unseen social forces shape our lives. Anthropology is the holistic study to remain in good standing. of human biology and culture across time and place. At a fundamental level, both sociology and anthropology invite us to break through our 2 Sociology & Anthropology

common sense ideas about the world, allowing us to better understand and SOC 2134 SOCIAL STATISTICS LAB (1 credit) potentially improve society. Students who study sociology and anthropology A computer-based laboratory course to be taken in conjunction with will gain a distinct perspective on social inequality, patterns of behavior, SOC 2130. The focus is on using computer software to produce and forces for social change and resistance, and how social systems work. interpret statistical information in the study of social life. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): MATH 1120, MATH 1130, MATH 1220, Sociology majors learn the analytical skills needed to understand the MATH 1310, or MATH 1530 and SOC 2130 (taken previously or challenges of a rapidly changing and increasingly diverse world. And concurrently) or permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate they graduate with the tools to improve our at all levels – from students. the neighborhood to the global community. That’s because a degree in sociology provides students with a well-rounded liberal arts education that SOC 2150 SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILIES (3 credits) emphasizes critical thinking, decision-making skills, and the ability to make This course provides a description and analysis of contemporary families connections across disciplines, leading to potential careers in: from a sociological perspective. A life course perspective traces the development of family life, with special attention to change, choice, and • Family and Social Services Program Support diversity. Topics such as family structure, the functions of the family as an , family comparisons across culture and time, and difficulties • Business Management and faced by families in contemporary society will also be explored. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Not open to non-degree graduate • Marketing Analysis and Research students. Distribution: General Education course and U.S. Diversity • Research General Education course • Health and Human Services SOC 2190 THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST (3 credits) An interdisciplinary study of the social, religious, and historical dimensions • Health Care Administration of contemporary issues and events which make the Middle East cultural and geographic region a center of global tensions. After providing a background • Nonprofit Organizational Administration of how Islam spread in and unified the region, students will study factors • Criminal Justice which have shaped the Middle East from the late Ottoman period to the present, analyzing the principal sociocultural and political economic developments in the Middle East from the early 19th century to the early Sociology 21st century. (Cross-listed with RELI 2190, HIST 2190). SOC 1010 INTRODUCTORY SOCIOLOGY (3 credits) Distribution: Humanities and Fine Arts General Education course and An introduction to the study of human societies. The course presents Global Diversity General Education course the fundamental concepts and theories that make up the sociological SOC 2300 SPORT & SOCIETY (3 credits) perspective. These serve as tools for the analysis of social inequality, social This course provides a sociological examination of the contemporary and social change. sports world and the ways that the institution of sport both reflects and Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Not open to non-degree graduate shapes society. The importance of sports to culture and socialization, the students. interaction between sports and other social institutions, and the unique role Distribution: Social Science General Education course that sports plays in both perpetuating and contesting inequalities of race, SOC 2100 SOCIAL PROBLEMS (3 credits) gender, class, identity, and ability will be explored. An analysis of the origins of social problems in American society. Attention Distribution: Social Science General Education course is given to the nature, consequences and solutions of selected social SOC 2400 SOCIOLOGY ON FILM (3 credits) problems. This course applies the sociological perspective to feature and documentary Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Not open to non-degree graduate movies to critically explore social issues presented on film. Students will students. develop their sociological imaginations as they are introduced to essential Distribution: Social Science General Education course sociological concepts such as culture, society, the social construction of SOC 2120 (3 credits) , socialization, power and inequality, social institutions, and social SOC 2120 is an intellectual of sociology as an academic discipline problems as depicted in classic, contemporary, and foreign film. As social surveying outstanding contributions to its body of theory. The social issues are serious and often controversial, the films examined may also be contexts in which a variety of classical and contemporary theoretical controversial and contain mature themes. traditions have arisen will be considered. Stress is placed on understanding Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Not open to non-degree graduate and applying different approaches to sociological analysis through detailed students. textual interpretation of theoretical writings. Distribution: Social Science General Education course Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and Sociology major or SOC 2800 MAJOR SOCIAL ISSUES (3 credits) permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. The course examines a major social issue from a sociological perspective SOC 2130 SOCIAL STATISTICS (3 credits) with content and materials designed for non-majors. The topics will vary An introduction to the fundamental statistical techniques used in the from semester to semester, so the course can be taken more than once. analysis of social data, including descriptive and inferential statistics. The focus is on the production and interpretation of statistical information in the study of social life. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): MATH 1120, MATH 1130, MATH 1220, MATH 1310, or MATH 1530 or permission of instructor. Sociology & Anthropology 3

SOC 3300 (3 credits) SOC 3800 WORK AND SOCIETY (3 credits) This course critically examines the meaning, purpose, and consequences This course explores the social organization of work in the United States, of gender, by using sociological methods and theories to explore the from pre-industrial times to the present. It addresses how and why current institutions that structure gender relationships and identities, and form the work structures and practices emerged historically within a global context, contexts that shape social life in the United States. Particular attention will and the social implications of these structures for various groups (based on be given to how social institutions like the state, the economy, family and race/ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, and ). The course the mass media shape the definitions of femininity and masculinity, as well grapples with the big questions: "How work is organized the way it is right as how the gender system intersects with other structures of inequality - now, how did we get here, and what might it look like in the future?" race, class, and sexual orientation. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and sophomore standing; or Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and sophomore standing; or permission of instructor. permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. SOC 3820 (3 credits) Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course The study of the social patterning of health and illness, including SOC 3450 (3 credits) inequalities in health by stratifying elements such as race, class, and Social interaction studied in situations of (1) social influences on individuals, gender. Examines the social definition of health, illness, and the social (2) dyads or face-to-face groups, and (3) larger social systems. The concepts, position of being a sick person in society. Also examines the interaction theories, data, research methods and applications of varied substantive individuals have with health care providers and the structure of medicine topics are examined. (Cross-listed with PSYC 3450). in the U.S. and around the world. Offers a critical examination of the social Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 or PSYC 1010 institution of medicine. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and sophomore standing; or SOC 3510 RESEARCH METHODS (3 credits) permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. This course is a basic introduction to the principles, methods and techniques Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course of empirical . The common methods used by sociologists and anthropologists are addressed such as surveys, interviews, and observation. SOC 3840 AND SOCIAL ISSUES (3 credits) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or This course introduces students to the scientific study of populations permission of instructor across the world and the social issues derived from population change. It includes basic training on demographic methods and the use of data SOC 3514 RESEARCH METHODS LAB (1 credit) sources. It covers concepts and theories that connect population dynamics This is a laboratory course to be taken in conjunction with SOC 3510. to world economic development, global inequality, refugee and immigration The focus is on applying and basic data analysis learned in issues, the status of women, intergenerational competition, and population SOC 3510 and the development of a sociological research proposal. pressure on food and the environment. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010, junior standing, and Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and sophomore standing, SOC 3510 (taken previously or concurrently); or permission of instructor. or permission of instructor. Six hours of social science, or permission of SOC 3610 APPLIED ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (3 credits) instructor. A foundational applied organizational sociology course that focuses Distribution: Global Diversity General Education course on the understanding, analysis, and applications of basic knowledge of SOC 3900 RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS IN THE U.S. (3 credits) organizational structures and systems for solving organizational problems, The course explores historical and contemporary meanings of race and enhancing organizational performance, and preparing students for ethnicity and introduces students to the ways sociologists think about 'race,' leadership roles in organizations. race relations and racism. It views current theoretical issues, and focuses on Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and sophomore standing; or the recent and the current position of several major racial-ethnic permission of instructor. populations in the U.S.: African Americans, Latino/a Americans, Native SOC 3690 SOCIAL INEQUALITY (3 credits) Americans, Asian Americans, and white/European ethnics. Emphasis is on Considers social inequality from a sociological vantage point, introducing how race/ethnicity has structured groups' experiences in relation to social students to the structure of inequality, power, and privilege. Attention institutions like health, education, culture and media, the legal system, and is paid to the intersections of various forms of inequality, including the economy. an examination of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and sexual Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and sophomore standing; or orientation, immigration, age, ability, etc. The consequences of social permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. inequality for life chances and social mobility are examined. Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and sophomore standing; or SOC 4130 SOCIOLOGY OF (3 credits) permission of instructor. This course introduces students to the sociological study of behaviors that SOC 3700 INTRODUCTION TO LGBTQ STUDIES (3 credits) have been labeled as "deviant" because they presumably violate social Introduces key themes and critical frameworks in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, norms. The course takes a constructionist approach, critically analyzing Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies. This course examines scholarly how deviance is socially defined, organized, and managed. Students will be contributions from a range of academic disciplines and traces some of challenged to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society and the ways that LGBT Studies has influenced cultural and social theory more to question the labelling of behaviors, individuals, and powerless groups as broadly. Topics include LGBTQ histories and social movements; forms deviant. We will explore the social processes, powerful actors, and social of oppression including heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia; institutions that create deviance as well as efforts to resist definitions of resistance to oppression; queer ; intersecting identities; and deviance. (Cross-listed with SOC 8136). representations in literature, art, and popular media. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 or WGST 2010 or WGST 2020; permission of instructor. or permission of the instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course 4 Sociology & Anthropology

SOC 4140 (3 credits) SOC 4240 SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA (3 This course examines classical and contemporary sociological theories credits) on formation, the urbanization process, and the interaction of society The course reviews the main social, economic, and political forces that and the built environment. Topics covered include suburbanization, have shaped Latin American societies, and the sociological theories used gentrification, residential segregation, social networks, crime, housing, to understand Latin American development and underdevelopment. Race, city culture, and public policy. The focus is on U.S. with selected ethnicity, gender and class in Latin America, as well as the region's position comparisons to other world regions. Students will also get basic knowledge in the global economy are examined. (Cross-listed with SOC 8246, LLS 4240, and exposure to research methods to study urban areas locally. (Cross- LLS 8246). listed with SOC 8146). Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing or Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing, or permission of instructor permission from the instructor. Distribution: Global Diversity General Education course SOC 4150 AMERICAN FAMILY PROBLEMS (3 credits) SOC 4250 CRISSCROSSING THE CONTINENT: LATIN AMERICAN This course explores the problems and issues faced by contemporary MIGRATIONS (3 credits) American families, such as racism and sexism; the challenges of childhood In this course we will use an interdisciplinary lens to study the changes and and adolescence; divorce and remarriage; work and family conflict; and continuities of migration in the Americas. The course starts with an overview family . The difficulty of defining both "family" and "problems" is of immigration to the Americas during the first era of mass migration addressed throughout the course. (Cross-listed with SOC 8156) (1850-1920) to explore the relevance of European migrations for national Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and Junior standing, or and identity constructions in the Southern Cone of America. Students permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. then will be introduced to the impacts of social and political change on Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course emigration flows, both regionally and beyond the region. They will also SOC 4170 SOCIOLOGY OF FATHERHOOD (3 credits) explore migration related policies at the national and regional level. We This course examines the existing social science research on fatherhood, will also study the changes and continuities in the migration system of the exploring topics such as the evolution, history, , and politics of Americas. Lastly, we will analyze the new North-South migration, as well as fatherhood; father involvement and its relationship to both children's and immigration to Latin America from Asia (recent and historical), Europe, and men's well-being; the effects of diversity and family structure on fatherhood; Africa. (Cross-listed with SOC 8256, LLS 4250, LLS 8256). and public policy surrounding fatherhood. (Cross-listed with SOC 8176) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing, or permission of instructor. permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. Distribution: Global Diversity General Education course SOC 4180 OCCUPATIONS & CAREERS: FULFILLMENT AND SOC 4310 SOCIOLOGY OF SEXUALITIES (3 credits) CHALLENGES AT WORK (3 credits) This class focuses on the social construction of sexualities - especially This course examines what makes individuals and groups happy and heterosexual sexualities, bisexual sexualities, and homosexual sexualities. A satisfied with their jobs, and the factors that can turn "a dead-end job" primary focus of the class will be LGBT/Queer Studies. The class examines into a meaningful pursuit that lasts decades. The course utilizes a life how sexual desires/identities/orientations vary or remain the same in course approach and covers early socialization experiences to retirement different places and times, and how they interact with other social and transitions. It also employs a sociological lens to explore how individual cultural phenomenon such as government, family, popular culture, scientific experiences in the work realm are affected by stratification (such as race/ inquiry, and race, gender, and class. (Cross-listed with SOC 8316) ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class, and parental status) and as well as Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and Junior standing; or by occupational norms and structures, workplace relationships, and culture permission of the instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. and practices at the organizational and societal levels. (Cross-listed with Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course SOC 8186). SOC 4350 WORK & FAMILY (3 credits) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing, or This course examines the contemporary problems that individuals, families permission of instructor and communities in the U.S. have in integrating work and family/personal SOC 4200 SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY (3 credits) life. (Cross-listed with SOC 8356) This course offers an overview of contemporary sociological theories of the Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior or senior standing; body and uses these theories to explore substantive issues pertaining to the or permission of instructor. discourses, practices, and politics of the body in modern societies. SOC 4440 HUMAN CONNECTION, LONELINESS, & HEALTH (3 Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or credits) permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. This course examines the "loneliness epidemic" through a sociological SOC 4210 DISABILITY AND SOCIETY (3 credits) perspective and is based on the premise that loneliness is a public health This course takes a sociologically grounded but interdisciplinary look at the issue, as research consistently shows it is associated with a vast array past, present, and potential future of disability. Along the way, competing of physical and mental health outcomes. After discussing the extent of models and theories of disability are critically explored and substantive loneliness and how to define it by distinguishing it from other types of issues pertaining to the social experiences and social responses to people social pain, the course covers: 1) the extent and nature of loneliness and its with disabilities are discussed. (Cross-listed with SOC 8216) cultural/social sources; 2) the pathways from loneliness to health outcomes; Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior or senior standing; and 3) possible interventions to reduce loneliness and improve public or permission of instructor. Not open to non-degree graduate students. health. (Cross-listed with SOC 8446). Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or permission of the instructor. Sociology & Anthropology 5

SOC 4550 ORGANIZATIONAL DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (3 credits) SOC 4770 (3 credits) This course provides advanced-level knowledge of the structural This course explores political sociology, focusing on political processes understanding, assessment, analysis, and management of social diversity and power. Political sociologists investigate relationships between political as well as successful inclusion strategies in the workplace. Concepts institutions and various other institutions, including but not limited to and theories dealing with structural basis of the creation of difference, the economy, education, media, and , and the impacts that these consequences of difference, inclusion, affirmative action, and diversity relationships have on society and the individuals that comprise the consulting skills are fully examined in this course. This course will prepare society. This course will explore the concepts, theories, and knowledge students for successful leadership in diverse organizational environments. that comprise this field such as power, legitimacy, the state, networks, (Cross-listed with SOC 8556) stratification, and action. (Cross-listed with PSCI 4770, PSCI 8776, Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or SOC 8776). permission of instructor. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010, junior standing or permission from instructor SOC 4620 APPLIED FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS (3 credits) An advanced-level applied organizational sociology course that uses SOC 4780 URBAN LATIN AMERICA (3 credits) , concepts, research, and practice to examine the This course examines the experience of Latin American urbanization, structural bases of organizational effectiveness, efficiency, survival, and attending to its contributions to urban sociology, social movements, actions of organizational members. The course is designed to prepare and policymaking. Topics include urban transitions (e.g. pre-Hispanic to students for organizational leadership using advanced knowledge and skills colonial, post-colonial to industrial, and the neoliberal turn), socio-spatial of organizational sociology. (Cross-listed with SOC 8626). configurations (e.g. plazas, squatter settlements), urban marginality Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or debates, urban politics, and planning as well as governance innovations permission of instructor. (e.g. bus rapid transit systems, participatory budgeting). Students will compare city case studies across the region and to urban life in the United SOC 4700 WOMEN'S HEALTH AND ISSUES OF DIVERSITY (3 credits) States. (Cross-listed with SOC 8786, LLS 4780, LLS 8786). This course provides a critical understanding of the inter-relationship Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing or between socio-cultural, economic, and political factors and women's permission of instructor physical and mental health. The aim is to provide an overview of the experience with the health care system. Emphasis will be on critically Distribution: Global Diversity General Education course examining recent scholarship from a sociological, behavioral, health policy SOC 4800 CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN SOCIOLOGY (3 credits) perspective. (Cross-listed with SOC 8706, PHHB 4700, PHHB 8706) This course reviews research and writing in an area of current interest in the Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Junior Standing or permission of the field of sociology. The specific topic(s) to be covered will be announced at instructor. the time the course is being offered. Since the topics will vary, students may Distribution: U.S. Diversity General Education course elect to take this course more than once. (Cross-listed with SOC 8806) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or SOC 4740 SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE (3 credits) permission of instructor. This course investigates the economic, political and social constraints on equality present in local, national and global arrangements. Students will SOC 4830 SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH & ILLNESS (3 credits) gain a theoretical understanding of these conditions as well as those that This course will apply the sociological perspective to various topics lead to social change, spanning from day-to-day resistance techniques to regarding mental health and illness. The course will cover topics such as large scale social movements. Students will participate in a service learning the social construction of mental illness, the social epidemiology of mental or applied project as they explore contemporary social justice issues and illness, labeling and stigma of those with a mental illness, and mental learn both theoretical and practical tools needed to become successful health policy/treatment. (Cross-listed with SOC 8836) change makers, activists, or community organizers. Examples of social Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010, and junior standing¿ or justice movements or campaigns form the basis for understanding injustice permission of the instructor. at a local, national, and global level. (Cross-listed with SOC 8746) SOC 4850 (3 credits) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or This course looks at religion as a social and cultural phenomenon, permission of instructor. examining how religious beliefs, practices, institutions and movements SOC 4760 (3 credits) shape and are shaped by their social context. Topics include: sociological This course is an introduction to environmental sociology, a field of theories and explanations of religion and spirituality; definitions of religion sociology that explores the interaction between the environment and and the distinction between religion and other or ; society. Environmental sociologists consider how political, social, and the measurement of religiosity and the scientific study of religion; trends in economic factors have come to shape our patterns of interaction with religiosity, spirituality, and the religious landscape historically and globally; the natural and built environment. Students will be expected to use the sociological insights gained from the study of new , , sociological perspective to understand the landscape of environmental , and other issues related to contemporary religious problems, focusing on such issues as environment and health, disaster, experience. (Cross-listed with SOC 8856) environmental policy, climate change, environmental risk, human and Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 or permission of instructor. animal interactions, sustainability, and social SOC 4880 CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN SOCIOLOGY (ONE CREDIT movements. (Cross-listed with SOC 8766). HOUR) (1 credit) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing or This course reviews research and writing in an area of current interest in the permission of instructor field of sociology. The specific topic(s) to be covered will be announced at the time the course is being offered. Since the topics will vary, students may elect to take this course more than once. (Cross-listed with SOC 8886). Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or permission of instructor. 6 Sociology & Anthropology

SOC 4890 CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN SOCIOLOGY (TWO CREDIT ANTH 3220 PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF NATIVE NORTH AMERICA HOURS) (2 credits) (3 credits) This course reviews research and writing in an area of current interest in the A survey of the Native peoples and cultures of North America, past and field of sociology. The specific topic(s) to be covered will be announced at present. Topics covered include: , religion, social organization, the time the course is being offered. Since the topics will vary, students may kinship, political organization, material culture, gender and culture change elect to take this course more than once. (Cross-listed with SOC 8896). through time. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010 and junior standing; or Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 or permission of Instructor permission of instructor. ANTH 3260 WORLD CULTURES AND PEOPLES (3 credits) SOC 4900 SENIOR THESIS (4 credits) This course utilizes to examine human cultures in a specific This is a capstone research and writing course designed for Sociology geographic context. The area approach in cultural anthropology reveals majors who are in their senior year. The major purpose of the course is to how the physical environment shapes culture and how those cultures, in produce an original thesis of 20-25 pages, which will be developed through turn, shape their environments. This course will also examine the larger a series of assignments. Students will choose their own thesis topics with social milieu and cultural change over time. The specific area will be the purpose of reflecting on and synthesizing knowledge about sociological announced each time the course is offered. concepts, theories, and research methods. This course meets the University Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 or permission of instructor. requirement of a third writing course. ANTH 3910 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3 Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): SOC 1010, 2120, 2130, 2134, 3510, credits) 3514, Sociology major, and senior standing; or permission of instructor. Not An introduction to physical anthropology through an examination of open to non-degree graduate students. theories and techniques used to investigate human origins; the relationship Distribution: Writing in the Discipline Single Course between humans and their physical environment; human variation, growth SOC 4910 INTERNSHIP IN SOCIOLOGY (1-3 credits) and development; and the evolution of human diseases. This course offers students an opportunity to experience sociology and/ Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 or High School Biology or anthropology through direct involvement in non-profit, for profit, recommended. government, or other organization. The host organization must be approved Distribution: Natural/Physical Science General Education course in advance in consultation with the internship coordinator. This course may ANTH 3920 ESSENTIALS OF ARCHAEOLOGY (3 credits) be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours. This course introduces students to the essentials of scientific archaeology. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Senior standing and permission of Topics addressed include the history of archaeology, site survey, mapping, instructor. testing, excavation, laboratory methods, analysis, interpretation, and SOC 4990 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY (1-3 credits) documentation. Scientific archaeology focuses upon the use of empirical Guided readings and/or independent research in a special sociological topic data to test or evaluate our interpretations of past human behavior. under the supervision of a Sociology faculty member. A formal contract Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Anthropology 1050 or permission of specifying the nature of the work to be completed must be signed before instructor. enrolling in the course. May be taken for a maximum of six hours. ANTH 4210 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3 credits) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Not open to Cultural Anthropology is the sub-discipline of Anthropology that non-degree graduate students. systematically considers cultural diversity (similarities and differences) in all known human societies. The scope of cultural anthropology is Anthropology one of the broadest in the social sciences and includes the study of ANTH 1050 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY (3 credits) subsistence strategies and economies, kinship and social organization, Anthropology is the humanistic and scientific study of humans, past and political organization, religion, gender, language, expressive arts, present. This course will present an overview of the four subdisciplines of human-environment relationships, and . (Cross-listed with anthropology: sociocultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic. ANTH 8216). Distribution: Social Science General Education course Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Junior or senior with a minimum of six hours of social science. ANTH 2000 ETHNOGRAPHY (1-4 credits) This is a self-paced course in which the student views films and reads books ANTH 4220 NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (3 credits) and articles regarding a specific culture. Each culture will be a one (1) credit This course explores more than 20,000 years of Native American culture hour module. The intent is to acquaint the student in some depth with other and lifeways in North America. Indigenous peoples faced numerous cultures in the world. challenges throughout this vast and diverse continent. Hunters, gatherers, Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): One course in the social sciences and the fishers, and horticulturalists adapted to all regions of North America. instructor's permission. Students will be introduced to a range of archaeological concepts, methods and theoretical perspectives central to learning about this rich heritage of ANTH 2990 GUIDED READING (1-6 credits) American archaeology. (Cross-listed with ANTH 8226). The course is designed to allow the student enrolled in an anthropology Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 or ANTH 4210. course to pursue a specialized interest or topic in greater depth than is or was possible for the other course as a whole. ANTH 4230 ETHNOMEDICINES OF THE AMERICAS (3 credits) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in an An anthropological approach to the study of the cultural systems of specific anthropology course or enrollment in an anthropology course in the American ethnomedicines (traditional medicines) of North, Central and immediately preceding semester and permission of instructor. South America. For each ethnomedicine, the historical context, , practice, therapeutics, and utilization will be examined to understand ANTH 3210 CULTURES OF AFRICAN PEOPLE (3 credits) how and why each ethnomedicine has survived despite tremendous An introduction to cultures and societies of Africa. Analysis of kinship extermination pressure. (Cross-listed with ANTH 8236). systems; political, economic and religious institutions; social change. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 Emphasis on the dynamics of social organization of African people. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Sophomore or above with one three-hour introductory social science course Sociology & Anthropology 7

ANTH 4240 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3 credits) Medical anthropology is the cross-cultural study of human culture, health and illness. Using multiple theoretical perspectives, this course examines how cultural, social, environmental, and biological factors interact to produce patterns of health and illness in past and present human societies. (Cross-listed with ANTH 8246) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH1050 and junior or senior standing; or permission of the instructor. ANTH 4250 ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE GREAT PLAINS (3 credits) Environmental anthropology seeks to understand the interrelationships between human societies and their biophysical and social environments. This course introduces students to basic concepts and theories used by anthropologists to study environmental influences upon both past and present Native American societies on the North American Great Plains. Particular attention will be given to the rapid and dramatic environmental changes that continue to challenge Native Americans in the Great Plains today. (Cross-listed with ANTH 8256) Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Anthropology 1050 and junior standing; or permission of instructor. ANTH 4260 TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3 credits) Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) is the comparative study of cultures. Each semester the course is offered, one topic will be selected from the subfield of Cultural Anthropology, such as: Applied Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Anthropology of Gender and Sexualities, Comparative Analysis of Kinship, or the Anthropology of Religion. Since the topic will vary, students may elect to take this course more than once. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 or permission of instructor. ANTH 4920 SEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY (3 credits) This course reviews research and writing in an area of current interest in the field of anthropology. The specific topic(s) to be covered will be announced at the time the course is being offered. Since the topics will vary, students may elect to take this course more than once. (Cross-listed with ANTH 8926). Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 or permission of instructor ANTH 4940 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD METHODS (3 credits) This course introduces students to the field methods of scientific archaeology. These field methods include map reading, use of satellite and aerial photographs, instrument survey and mapping, pedestrian survey or reconnaissance, site survey data collection, identification of artifacts (stone tools, ceramics, etc.) and ecofacts (animal remains, macrobotanicals, etc.), systematic artifact collection and documentation, soil probes and coring methods, GPS-based mapping, excavation methods, and data recording. Additional topics include laboratory methods (artifact and ecofact analysis, interpretation, and documentation). This field course ultimately focuses upon the use of empirical data to test or evaluate our interpretations of past human behavior. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): ANTH 1050 and Junior standing. Not open to non-degree graduate students. ANTH 4990 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ANTHROPOLOGY (1-3 credits) Guided readings and/or independent research in a special anthropological topic under the supervision of an Anthropology faculty member. A formal contract specifying the nature of the work to be completed must be signed before enrolling in the course. May be taken for a maximum of six hours. Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): Permission of instructor.